Meet Nova · a newshoots product

Every child deserves a tutor — and the skills to succeed in life.

Nova is an AI tutor that meets each child exactly where they are — building real exam mastery and the durable skills of thinking, communicating and learning. On the phone that's already in their hand.

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Built & working today on NEET Class 11 · made with care by newshoots

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For parents

A patient, one-to-one tutor for your child — safe, affordable, and built to run on any phone.

What Nova gives your child →
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For students

Learn any concept your way, ace your exams, and build the skills school rarely teaches.

Meet your companions →
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For teachers

Give every student one-to-one attention — with you reviewing and approving every lesson.

How Nova extends you →
The problem

A great tutor is the biggest lever in learning — and the one almost no child gets.

One-to-one tutoring is one of the most powerful things we know of in education. Yet the children who'd gain the most from a patient, personal teacher are the least likely to ever meet one.

27%
of Indian students get private coaching — and it tracks income & geography
2.2×
more spent per child on coaching in cities than in villages
9 in 10
rural teens already have a smartphone at home — the device is in hand
56%
of India's 10-year-olds can't read a simple text

And it isn't only about marks. The communication, language and critical-thinking skills that privilege quietly confers go untaught too. The technology to change this finally exists — the access still doesn't. Nova closes that gap.

Sources: NSO CMS:E 2025 · ASER 2024 · World Bank 2024 · Bloom, 1984.

Meet Nova

A tutor that meets every child exactly where they are.

Nova doesn't assume a grade. It measures what each child actually knows, then builds a personal path — one concept at a time, in a style that suits them.

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Diagnostic-first

We don't guess. Nova measures what your child truly knows before teaching a thing.

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A personal path

An adaptive route to board- and entrance-exam readiness, on one NCERT-aligned knowledge graph.

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Teaches you to think

How to reason, communicate and learn — the life skills that matter beyond any exam.

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Four companions

Distinct teaching styles — the student picks one, and can switch anytime.

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Dhruv

Calm. Asks questions back.

Nova

Energetic. Real-world analogies.

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Kiran

Patient. Visual. Never rushes.

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Aroh

The challenger. Pushes you.

The science

A closed mastery loop — every concept, every day.

📖 Lesson
✅ Practise
🗣️ Explain it back
🔁 Apply it
📊 Mastery score

Streaks reward consistency

A daily streak grows a bonus on every step — we reinforce the habit, not just the cramming.

Gaps resurface automatically

Concepts fade if not revisited, so important, stale topics float back to the top before they're forgotten.

Knows when you're ready

Spaced-repetition scheduling and exam-readiness gating — Nova knows when a concept is truly mastered.

Learning design

A teaching policy, not just a chatbot.

Most "AI tutors" forward your question to a single prompt. Nova runs a real teaching engine: every message flows perceive → decide → teach, grounded in decades of learning-science research.

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Perceive

Reads the learner's intent, mood and cognitive load — plus live signals like repeated "I don't know" or growing frustration.

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Decide

A deterministic policy picks one of ten teaching modes — emotional safety first, never a random reply.

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Teach

The model answers under hard guardrails: academic integrity, child-safety, and plain language.

It probes Socratically — but knows when to stop and simply explain. It senses overload and slows down. That's the difference between a tutor and a chatbot, and it's live today.

The bigger goal

More than marks — the skills that decide a life.

An exam score opens one door. The students we serve are rarely taught to think, question, or speak with confidence — the very skills privilege quietly hands to everyone else. That is Nova's real mission.

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Communicate with confidence

Express ideas clearly — in their mother tongue and in English.

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Think critically

Question, break problems down, reason from first principles. Nova pushes "why" on every answer.

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Learn how to learn

Metacognition by design — reflect before, during and after every lesson.

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Research, not just Google

Use AI as a research tool, not an answer machine — find sources, cross-check, form your own view.

For parents

A patient tutor for your child — without the coaching-class price tag.

Quality tutoring shouldn't depend on where you live or what you earn. Nova is built so cost, distance and device are never the reason a child falls behind.

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Safe by design

Child-safety and academic-integrity guardrails on every response. Nova guides — it never just hands over answers to copy.

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Runs on the phone you have

An installable web app that works on a ₹5,000 phone — no new device, no app store, engineered to sip rationed data.

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In your language coming

Lessons in Hindi and regional languages, with technical accuracy preserved.

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Teachers in the loop

Educators review and approve AI-generated lessons for quality and safety.

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Free where it's needed most

Our mission is to launch free for government schools, so the children left for last are reached first.

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See real progress coming

Parent alerts and progress summaries so you always know how your child is doing.

For students

Learn it your way. Actually understand it.

No more feeling lost in a class of sixty. Nova figures out what you already know, teaches the rest in a style you like, and sticks with you until it clicks.

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Pick your companion

Calm Dhruv, energetic Nova, patient Kiran or challenger Aroh — choose the teacher that fits you, switch whenever.

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Crack the toughest exams

NEET Class 11 is live now — 174 concepts across Bio, Chem & Physics, weighted by real past-paper frequency.

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Get unstuck, instantly

Ask anything, any time. Nova explains it a different way — with real-world analogies and diagrams — until it makes sense.

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Build a streak

Daily practice, growing rewards, and a "pick up where you left off" queue that keeps you moving.

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Learn to explain

Nova asks you to teach it back — the fastest way to know you've really got it.

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Skills for life

Not just answers — how to think, question, and speak with confidence. The stuff that matters after the exam too.

For teachers

One teacher, sixty students — Nova gives each of them your attention.

Nova doesn't replace you. It extends you — a patient one-to-one tutor for every student, with you in control of quality and content.

You approve every lesson live

Teacher-in-the-loop by design. Educators review, edit and approve AI-generated lessons before students ever see them.

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A tutor for every student

Nova gives each child the one-to-one time no single teacher can give sixty — reinforcing exactly what you teach.

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Lessons on demand

Generate an NCERT-aligned lesson for any topic in seconds — less prep, more teaching.

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See who needs help coming

Concept-level mastery across your whole class, so you know who's struggling and where.

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Classroom mode coming

Assign topics, set exam portions, and track progress for the whole class from one place.

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Paper meets cloud coming

Print an answer or OMR sheet, students write by hand, and vision grades it in minutes.

Let's give every child the tutor — and the skills to succeed.

Parent, student, teacher, school or partner — tell us a little about you and we'll be in touch.

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